Speakup and phoebe

[Janina Sajka]

I don't know the specifics of why, but understand it had to do with some security audit. Unfortunately, it wasn't cleared up in time. 

You are quite correct that this is a step in the wrong direction, and I join your concern that Speakup be returned to the kernels and boot disks shipped by the next
Red Hat versions.

Adam Myrow writes:
> From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
> 
> So, why did Redhat choose to drop Speakup from their next version?  It
> sounds like maybe somebody didn't like the modified kernel.  So, they
> should have done like Slackware and gave the user a choice of a
> Speakup-enabled kernel or not.  BTW, Slackware 9.0 just came out and has
> Gnome 2.2 with accessibility plug-ins, and still supports Speakup.  It is
> down to a boot disk and two root disks to install, but also has a third
> option which is some sort of boot manager on a separate disk that will
> supposedly boot a CDROM even on computers that otherwise can't boot one.
> I don't know if this will speak or not, but it sure sounds interesting.  I
> sure hope Redhat reconsiders dropping Speakup as it is a major step in the
> wrong direction.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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